Download or read book The Secret Agent Illustrated written by Joseph Conrad and published by . This book was released on 2020-10-17 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Secret Agent: A Simple Tale is a novel by Joseph Conrad, first published in 1907. The story is set in London in 1886 and deals with Mr Adolf Verloc and his work as a spy for an unnamed country. The Secret Agent is one of Conrad's later political novels in which he moved away from his former tales of seafaring.